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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
On Thursday, the new House is also expected to vote on a 5 percent cut in its own budget, for an estimated savings of $35 million over the rest of the fiscal year. GOP House leaders say they will continue to vote on bills to cut spending of some sort at least once a week for the foreseeable future.
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I read this and then thought of this quote from a great Matt Taibi article I read the other day.
"Boehner declared proudly, failing to recognize that paying for trillion-dollar bailouts and $900 billion tax breaks by cutting $30 million at a time is a little like planning a hostile takeover of IBM with a stack of Rite Aid coupons"
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...105?print=true
Between that and the earmarks ban we should have the deficit under control around the same time the universe collapses on itself but anyways hooray for the new Weeper of the House!